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Saturday, July 23, 2011

i knew it.

.."We Who Are Your Closest Friends"

by Phillip Lopate .

.

we who are

your closest friends

feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting
as a group
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want

nor cutting you adrift

your analyst is
in on it

plus your boyfriend

and your ex-husband

and we have pledged

to disappoint you

as long as you need us

in announcing our

association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves
but since our Thursday nights
have brought us